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Brown Jr., Tom
Case files of the Tracker - true stories from Americas greatest outdoorsman
Brown Jr., Tom
Tracker - The
Clark, Leonard (Leonard Francis)
Marching Wind ( China ) (Eastern Chine to the mountains - Amne Machin)
Capstone, Peter Hathaway
Death in the Long Grass - a big game hunters adventures in the African Bush
Hunter, John A.
Hunter (Africa)
King, Dean
Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival (survival after shipwreck on West African desert, capture, slavery and rescue)
Millard, Candice
River of Doubt
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
Fearful Void (Sahara) (a walk across the Saraha West to East)
OHanlon, Redmond
In Trouble Again - A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
OHanlon, Redmond
No Mercy. A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
OHanlon, Redmond
Into the Heart of Borneo
OHanlon, Redmond
Trawler (North Sea in the winter)
Rowlands, John J.
Cache Lake Country - Life in the north woods. (Canada)
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
South - the story of Shackletons last expedition 1914-1917 (Antarctica 1914-1917)
Snyder, Gerald S.
In the Footsetps of Lewis and Clark
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Morrison, Samuel Eliot
Admiral of the ocean sea - a life of Christopher Columbus
Rahn Phillips, Carla and Phillips, William
Worlds of Christopher Columbus
Hunter, Douglas
The Race to the New World - Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and a Lost History of
Discovery
Granzotto, Gianni
Christopher Columbus
Taylor, Andrew
The World of Gerard Mercator - the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
Bainton, Roland
Erasmus of Christendom
Taylor, Andrew
The World of Gerard Mercator - the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
(Mercator and John Dee knew one another)
Woolley, Benjamin
The Queens Conjurer - the science and magic of Dr. John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I
Parr, Charles McKew
So Noble a Captain - the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan
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Altounyan, Taqui
Chimes from a Wooden Bell - A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian
(author was one of the children who inspired Arthur Ransome to write his young adult books)
Ransome, Arthur
Autobiography of Arthur Ransome
Brogan, Hugh
The life of Arthur Ransome
Hardymet, Christina
Captain Flint's Trunk (Arthur Ransome and his writings)
Mace, Elisabeth
Ransome Revisited
Chambers, Roland
The Last Englishman - the double life of Arthur Ransome
Wardale, Roger
Arthur Ransome under sail - Racundra - Nancy Blackett - Lottie Blossom - Peter Duck - Selina King - Swallow
Wardale, Roger
Nancy Blackett - under sail with Arthur Ransome
Hunt, Peter
Arthur Ransome (literary biography)
Wardale, Roger
Nancy Blackett - under sail with Arthur Ransome
Wardale, Roger
Arthur Ransome Master Storyteller
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Brower, Kenneth ,
The Starship and the Canoe dual biography of Freeman Dyson and George Dyson
Chadwick, David
Crooked cucumber : the life and Zen teaching of Shunryu Suzuki (Japan and California)
Carlisle, Fred
Journey with Caravel - We ran away to sea.
Dalton, Anthony
Wayward Sailor - in search of the real Tristan Jones
Dashti, Ali
In Search of Omar Khayyam (Persia)
Crawford, Stanley
Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
Dixon, June
Uffa Fox a Personal Biography (boat designer - racing sailor - England)
Druett, Joan
Tupia (Tupia a polynesian sailed from Tahiti with Captain Cook in the Pacific)
Felt, Hali
Soundings - the story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor (Marie Tharp)
Greenlaw, Linda
The Hungry Ocean - a swordboat captains journey
Greenlaw, Linda
The Lobster Chronicles - life on a very small island (Maine, USA)
Greenlaw, Linda
Seaworthy - a swordboat captain returns to the sea
Greenlaw, Linda
All Fishermen are Liars
Guareschi, Giovanni
The Family Guareschi - Chronciles of the Past and Present (Italy)
Guareschi, Giovanni
The House that Nino Built (Italy)
Guareschi, Giovanni
My Home Sweet Home - translation of Corrierno delle Famiglie (Italy)
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Hillcourt, William - with Olave, Lady Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell - the two lives of a hero
Jeal, Tim
Baden-Powell - Founder of the Boy Scouts
Wade, Eileen K.
The Chief - The Life Story of Robert Baden-Powell
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Hillerman, Tony
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (2001) (autobiography) ISBN 0-06-019445-6 (mystery writer - Oklahoma dust bowl - WWII in Europe)
Iacocca, Lee
Iacocca an autobiography (Ford motor Co. and Chrysler motor Co.)
Iacocca, Lee
Where have all the leaders gone
Hunter, John A.
Hunter (East Africa)
Kent, Rockwell
Its Me O Lord - the autobiography of Rockwell Kent (artist and author)
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Knightly, Philip and Simpson, Colin
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence, T. E. (1888 - 1935)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (T.E. Lawrence on his WWI experiences)
Thomas, Lowell
With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edition
Wallach, Jan
Desert Queen -The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer Advisor
(WWI before and after - Arabia - Iraq - knew T.E. Lawrence)
Rice, Edward
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made a pilgrimage ... Mecca
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Latham, Jean Lee
Carry on Mr. Bowditch (biography of the author of American Practical Navigator)
Moitessier, Bernard
Tamata and the alliance (an auto biography of a great voyaging sailor)
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
John Paul Jones - a sailors biography
Niven, David
&bsp; Bring on the Empty Horses (actor)
Powers, Ron
A Life of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Slocum, Victor
Capt. Joshua Slocum - the adventures of Americas best known sailor
Teller, Walter Magnes
The Voyages of Joshua Slocum (Voyage of the Liberdade ~ Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil ~ Sailing Alone Around the World ~ Rescue of Some Gilbert Islanders)
Tangvald, Peter
At any Cost - Love - Life and Death at Sea (book finished by his son after Peter T. died at sea)
Le Tourmelin, Jacques-Yves
Kurun in the Caribbean 1953-1955
see also Kurun around the world - in the Titles list.
Thompson, Harry
This Thing of Darkness (about Fitzroy, Darwin and the Beagle
Dobie, J. Frank
Some Part of Myself (autobiography) (Texas)
Tinkle, Lon
An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie
Rodgers.Slats. and, Stilwell.Hart
Old Soggy no. 1 the uninhibited story of Slats Rogers (aviator and airplane builder in Texas)
Winchester, Simon
Professor and the madman - A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Steffy, Loren C.
The Man Who Thought Like a Ship (biography of J. Richard (Dick) Steffy - developed techniques for rebuilding ancient wrecks)
Brady, Catherine
Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres - deciphering the ends of DNA
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Bowker, R.M.(Robert Marshland) and Budd, S.A. (Stanley Arthur)
Make your own Sails
Buehler, George
Buehlers Backyard Boatbuilding
Dias, Antonio
Designer and Client - Eight Boat Design Commissions, from Kayak to Cruiser
Fox, Uffa
Sailing Boats
Gerr, Dave
Nature of Boats
Gerr, Dave
Elements of Boat Strength - for Builders. Designers and Owners
Gilpin, Vincent
Good Little Ship - The
Jones, Dilwyn
Boats - Egyptian Bookshelf (series)
Parker, Reuel B.
The Sharpie Book
Steffy, Loren C.
The Man Who Thought Like a Ship (biography of J. Richard (Dick) Steffy - developed techniques for rebuilding ancient wrecks)
White, Robb
How to build a tin canoe - Confessions of an Old Salt
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Adkins, Jan
The Craft of Sail
Constantine, Paul
Practical Dinghy Cruiser
Crowley, Tony
The Lo-Tech Navigator
Gladwin, Thomas
East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll
Herreshoff, L. Francis
Complete Cruiser - the art practice and enjoyment of boating
Hill, Annie
Voyaging on a Small Income
Lewis, David H.
We the Navigators
Maitland, Derek
Setting Sails - a tribute to the Chinese Junk
Trimmer, John W.
How to Avoid Huge Ships or I never met a ship I liked
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Crabb, Tom
Band Saw projects
Holley, Linda A.
, Tipis Tepees Teepees - history and design of the cloth tipi
Jarvis, D.C., MD
Folk Medicine
King, Paul
The Complete Yurt Handbook
Lang, Gregory E.
Why a Son needs a Dad
Laubin, Reginald and Gladys
Indian Tipi - its history, construction and use
Ransome, Arthur
Rod and Line (river fishing in England)
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Butcher, Tim
Blood River - a journey to Africas broken heart
Taylor, Jeffrey
Facing the Congo - a modern-day journey into the heart of darkness
Cronkite, Walter
Around America - a tour of our magnificent coastline
Crawford, Stanley
Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
Demaris, Ovid
Poso del mundo; inside the Mexican-American border, from Tijuana to Matamoros
Dobie, J. Frank
Tongues of the Monte
Felt, Hali
Soundings - the story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor (Marie Tharp)
Gladwin, Thomas
East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
Meetings with Remarkable Men
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949
1949 descripion
Hansen, Gunnar
Islands at the Edge of Time - A Journey to Americas Barrier Islands
Kaplan, Robert D.
The Revenge of Geography - what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Kendall-Price, Claire
In the footsteps of the Swallows and Amazons - 19 illustrated walks
Langewiesche, William
Sahara Unveiled - A journey across the desert
Moussaieff Masson, Jeffrey
Slipping into Paradise - why I live in New Zealand
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
Fearful Void (Sahara)
Raban, Jonathan
Arabia through the looking glass (1979)
Raban, Jonathan
Coasting - A Private Voyage (around Great Britain)
Raban, Jonathan
Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Raban, Jonathan
Bad Land - an American Romance
Taylor, Andrew
The World of Gerard Mercator - the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) - 1835-1910
Life on the Mississippi
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Indian Ocean
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Wild Ocean - the Story of the North Atlantic and the Men Who Sailed It
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ HISTORY ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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Altounyan, Taqui
Chimes from a Wooden Bell - A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian
Alexander, Caroline
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Alexander, Caroline
Bounty - The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (on tape)
Antier, Jean-Jacques
Charles de Foucauld - Charles of Jesus
Bainton, Roland
Erasmus of Christendom
Battles, Matthew
Library - an unquiet history
Battles, Matthew
Palimpsest - a history of the written word
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
Francis Bacon - the temper of a man
Brower , Kenneth
Song for Satawal
Burrough, Brian
The Big Rich - The rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes
Ceram, C.W.
The Secret of the Hittites - the discovery of an ancient empire
Cline, Eric H.
1177 B.C. The Year
Civilization Collapsed
Crawford, Stanley
Mayordomo - chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
Delaney, Frank
Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea
Dobie, J. Frank
Coronado s children - tales of lost mines and buried treasures of the SW
Dobie, J. Frank
Longhorns
Dobie, J. Frank
Rattlesnakes
Dobie, J. Frank
Tongues of the Monte
Donovan, Robert J.
PT 109 - John F. Kennedy in World War II
Druett, Joan
, Rough Medicine - Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail
Druett, Joan
She Captains - Heroines and hellions of the Sea
Druett, Joan
Tupia
Glassner, Jean-Jacques translated by Aainab Bahrani and Marc van De Mieroop
The Invention of Cuneiform - Writing in Sumer
Granzotto, Gianni
Christopher Columbus
Gray, William R
, Voyages to paradise. exploring in the wake of Captain Cook
Haworth-Maden, Clare. editor
Viking Gods
Henry, Alexander - - edited by Armour, David A.
Attack at Michilimackinac 1763
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Kon Tiki expedition ,
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Aku Aku the Secret of Easter Island
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Ra expeditions
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Tigris expedition ,
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Maldive Mystery
Hicks, Robert D.
Voyage to Jamestown Practical Navigation in the Age of Discovery
Hillerman, Tony
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other tales ... (1973) ISBN 0-8263-0306-4
Horwitz, Tony
Blue Latitudes - Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange - on the trail of the Vikings. Conquistadors. Lost Colonists. and Other Adventurers in Early America
Hough, Richard
The Blind Horns Hate
Household, Geoffrey
Prisoner of the Indies - the adventures of Miles Philips as told by Geoffrey Household
Hunter, Douglas
The Race to the New World - Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and a Lost History of
Discovery
Iacocca, Lee
Iacocca an autobiography
Iacocca, Lee
Where have all the leaders gone
Hunter, Douglas
The Race to the New World - Christopher Columbus, John Cabot and a Lost History of
Discovery
Hunter, John A.
Hunter
Jenkins, Philip - - ( John P. Jenkins )
The Lost History of Christianity - The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and how it died
Jones, Dilwyn
Boats - Egyptian Bookshelf (series) ,
Kaplan, Robert D.
The Revenge of Geography - what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
Kent, George O.
Bismark and his times
Kent, Rockwell
Its Me O Lord - the autobiography of Rockwell Kent
King, Dean
Skeletons on the Zahara - A True Story of Survival
Knightly, Philip and Simpson, Colin
The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
Lansing, Alfred
Endurance - Shackletons Incredible Voyage
Lawrence, T. E. (1888 - 1935)
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lowenstein, Hubertus
A Basic History of Germany
Maitland, Derek
Setting Sails - a tribute to the Chinese Junk
Manchester, William
The Arms of Krupp 1587-1968
Manchester, William
World lit only by fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of
Marozzi, Justin
The Way of Herodotus travels with the man who invented history
Mattingly, Garrett
The Armada (Spanish of 1588)
McPhee, John A.
Looking for a Ship
Millard, Candice
River of Doubt
Miller, John J. and Molesky, Mark
Our Oldest Enemy - a history of Americas disasterous relationship with France
Moorhouse, Geoffrey
Fearful Void (Sahara)
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
John Paul Jones - a sailors biography
Morrison, Samuel Eliot
Admiral of the ocean sea - a life of Christopher Columbus
Morison, Samuel Eliot 1887-1976
The Ropemakers of Plymouth - a history of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949
Mowat, Farley
Serpants Coil - A stunning true epic of storm and salvage in Mid Atlantic
Mowat, Farley
Westviking - the Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
Obregon, Mauricio
Beyond the Edge of the Sea - Sailing with Janson and the Argonauts.Ulysses.the Vikings.and Other Explorers of the Ancient World
Oliva, Juan (attributed) pub. by Library of Congress
Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea and Western European Waters (with a World Map)
Parr, Charles McKew
So Noble a Captain - the Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan
Perez-Mallaina, Pablo E. - - - translated by Carla Rahn Phillips
Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Rahn Phillips, Carla and Phillips, William
Worlds of Christopher Columbus
Rahn Phillips, Carla
Six Galleons for the King of Spain (the building of a fleet for the New World trade)
Phillips.Carla Rahn (translator), Perez-Mallaina.Pablo E.
Spains Men of the Sea - Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Poolman, Kenneth
Speedwell Voyage - A tale of piracy and mutiny in the eighteenth century
Raban, Jonathan
Arabia through the looking glass (1979)
Rice, Edward
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton - the secret agent who made a pilgrimage ... Mecca
Rodgers, Slats. and, Stilwell.Hart
Old Soggy no. 1 the uninhibited story of Slats Rogers
Ruby, Robert
Unknown Shore - the Lost History of Englands Arctic Colony
Shepard, Birse
Lore of the Wreckers
Severin, Tim
, In Search of Robinson Crusoe
Soskice, Janet Martin
The Sisters of Sinai - How two lady adventurers discovered the hidden gospels
Souhami, Diana
Selkirks Island
Spalding, Simon
Food at Sea - shipboard cuisine from ancient to Modern Times
Steffy, Loren C.
The Man Who Thought Like a Ship ,
Stewart, Rory
The Prince of the Marshes and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Taylor, Andrew
The World of Gerard Mercator - the mapmaker who revolutionized geography
Temple, Robert K.G.
The Genius of China - 3,000 years of science discovery and invention
Theroux, Paul
Kingdom by the sea - A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain
Theroux, Paul
Sailing through China
Theroux, Paul
The Happy Isles of Oceania
Thomas, Lowell
Count Lukner - the Sea Devil ,
Thomas, Lowell
With Lawrence in Arabia New enlarged edition
Thompson, Harry
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Tuchman, Barbara W.
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel L.) - 1835-1910
Urrea, Luis Alberto
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Villiers, Alan J. 1903-1982
Wade, Eileen K.
Wallach, Jan
Weddle, Robert S.
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973
Wills, Gary
Worsley, Frank Arthur
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Peddiwell, J. Abner
Rosten, Leo
Hepburn, Kathrine
Kurlansky, Mark
Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Steven J.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NATURAL HISTORY ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Dillard, Annie
Hohn, Donovan
Junger, Sebastian
McAlister, Wayne H.
OHanlon, Redmond
OHanlon, Redmond
OHanlon, Redmond
OHanlon, Redmond
Warner, William E.
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This Thing of Darkness (about Fitzroy, Darwin and the Beagle)
A Distant Mirror - the calamitous fourteenth century
The Guns of August (the first 100 days of World War 1)
The Zimmermann Telegram - The astounding historic espionage operation that propelled America into World War 1
Life on the Mississippi
Devils Highway - a true story
Indian Ocean
Wild Ocean - the Story of the North Atlantic and the Men Who Sailed It
The Chief - The Life Story of Robert Baden-Powell
Desert Queen -The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer Advisor
Spanish Sea - The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery 1500 - 1685
They Were Expendable
St. Augustine
Shackletons Boat Journey
The Saber-Tooth Curriculum (teaching and education)
Joys of Yiddish
The Making of African Queen (making the movie - details on life in Congo and Kenya)
Paper - paging through history
Freakonomics - a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Moby Duck - The True Story of 28, 000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Enviornmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (Pacific Ocean mostly )
The Perfect Storm (Atlantic coast of USA)
Life on Matagorda Island (coastal Texas)
In Trouble Again - A journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon
No Mercy. A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
Into the Heart of Borneo
Trawler
Beautiful Swimmers - Watermen. Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
We the Navigators - The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
Thomas, Stephen D.
The Last Navigator
Brower, Kenneth
A Song for Satawal
Gladwin, Thomas
East is a Big Bird - Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll
Gooley, Tristan
The Natural Navigator
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Haworth-Maden, Clare. editor
Viking Gods
Jenkins, Philip - - ( John P. Jenkins )
The Lost History of Christianity - The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia - and how it died
Landau, Brent (translator)
Revelation of the Magi - the lost tale of the Wise Mens Journey to Bethlehem
Martin, Malachi
The Vatican
- although technically a book of fiction, it sounds too much like history of the papacy from WWII to the 1990.
Merton, Thomas
The Seven story Mountain (life of a Trappist monk)
Merton, Thomas
The Wisdom of the Desert - Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
Nakashima Brock. Rita and , Parker. Rebecca Ann
Saving Paradise - How Christianity traded love of this world for crucifixion and empire
Soskice, Janet Martin
The Sisters of Sinai - How two lady adventurers discovered the hidden gospels
Wills, Gary
St. Augustine (Augustine of N. Africa)
Young, William Paul
The Shack - a novel
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Blanchet, M. Wylie (Muriel Wylie) aka Capi - - 1891-1961
The Curve of Time (Canadian Pacific Coast)
Bowden, Keith
The Tecate Journals - seventy days on the Rio Grande
Buckley, Christopher
Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter
Chichester, Francis
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
Chiles, Webb
The Open Boat - Across the Pacific (book 1 of attempted circumnavigation)
Chiles, Webb
The Ocean Waits (book 2 of attempted circumnavigation)
Chiles, Webb
Chidiock Tichborne II (final -book- of attempted circumnavigation)
Coffey, Maria and Dag Goering
Sailing back in Time A nostalgic voyage on Canadas west coast
Converse, Cathy
Following the Curve of Time - The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (Canadian Pacific Coast)
Constant Waterman (Goldman, Matthew )
The Journals of the Constant Waterman
Conway, John E.
Catboat Summers (NE Coast of USA)
Coghlan, Nicholas
Winter in Fireland - a Patagonian Sailing Adventure
Delaney, Frank
Simple Courage - A true story of peril on the sea (North Atlantic - attempt to slavage/rescue a ship)
Dumas, Vito
Alone Through the Roaring Forties (during WWII)
Duxbury, Ken
Lugworm Island Hopping
Duxbury, Ken
Lugworm Homeward Bound - Greece to England in an Open Dingy
Gerbault, Alain - - 1893-1941
The Fight of the Firecrest - the Record of a Lone-Hand Cruise, From East to West, Across the Atlantic
Goldman, Matthew
The Journals of the Constant Waterman (adventures off the southern New England Coast in USA)
Goldman, Matthew - The Constant Waterman
Moon Wind at Large - Sailing Hither and Yon
Goldstein, Richard
Desperate Hours - The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria
Guzzwell, John Trekka Around the World
Hayes, David and Daniel
My old man and the sea a father and son sail around Cape Horn
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Kon Tiki expedition (Peru to Polynesia across the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1948)
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
Aku Aku the Secret of Easter Island
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Ra expeditions (Across the Atlantic)
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Tigris expedition (Indian Ocean)
Heyerdahl, Thor -- 1914-2002
The Maldive Mystery (Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean)
Hill, Annie
Brazil and Beyond
Horie, Kenichi Kodoku - Sailing Alone Across the Pacific
Hughes, Lee
Biggest Boat I could Afford - sailing up the U.S. Coast in a dingy
Jenkins, Peter
Along the Edge of America
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~ There is good reason to believe that much of Tristan Jones work are mostly fiction, but they were sold as narratives. ~
Jones, Tristan
, To venture further
Jones, Tristan
, Seagulls in my soup
Jones, Tristan
, Encounters of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
, Star to Steer Her by
(same as Outward Leg)
Jones, Tristan
, Outward Leg
(sailing a trimaran from San Diego USA to London UK)
Jones, Tristan
, Heart of Oak (certainly fiction as far as Jones participation)
Jones, Tristan
, Steady Trade
(considered fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, Somewheres East of Suez
Jones, Tristan
, Improbable voyage
Jones, Tristan
, Adrift
Jones, Tristan
Incredible Voyage
Jones, Tristan
, Saga of a Wayward Sailor
Jones, Tristan
, Ice (considered totally fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, Dutch Treat (considered fiction)
Jones, Tristan
, One hand for yourself - One for the Ship - The essential Tristan Jones
Junger, Sebastian
The Perfect Storm
Kent, Rockwell
Voyaging - Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Ladd, Stephen
Three Years in a Twelve-Foot Boat
(down the Missouri and Mississippi, then across through Panama Canal by ship
then on down the west coast of South America and across South America to the Carribbean and north to Florida.)
Langford, Richard E.
White Squall - the Last Voyage of Albatross (Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, to Galapagos in Pacific and back)
Lansing, Alfred
Endurance - Shackletons Incredible Voyage (Antarctic 1014-1917)
Lawrence, R.D.
Voyage of the Stella (Northwest coast of USA)
Le Tourmelin, Jacques-Yves
Kurun around the world
Leighton, Kenneth M.
Oar and Sail - an odyssey of the west coast
Leslie, Robert C.
A Waterbiography (orig. pub in 1894) (England)
Lewis, David H.
Icebird (around Antactica)
Lewis, David H.
We the Navigators (Micronesian navigtors)
Longyard, William
A Speck on the Sea - epic voyages in the most improbable vessels (mostly Atlantic)
Mackinnon, A. J.
Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow - a Mirror odyssey from N. Wales to Black Sea
Mahoney, Rosemary
Down the Nile - alone in a fishermans skiff
Mann, Zane B.
Fair Winds and Far Places
Manry, Robert
Tinkerbelle - the Story of the Smallest Boat to Cross the Atlantic (in 1966)
McCall, Fiona and Howard, Paul
All in the Same Boat (voyaging with young family)
McPhee, John A.
Looking for a Ship (commercial seafaring)
Mohlke, Matthew
Floating Down the Country - a 79 day adventure down the Mississippi ..to New Orleans
Moitessier, Bernard
Tamata and the alliance (mostly auto biographical)
Moitessier, Bernard
First voyage of the Joshua
Moitessier, Bernard
Sea Vagabonds world - boats and sails distant shores islands and lagoons
Mowat, Farley
Boat who wouldnt float (Canada)
Mowat, Farley
Serpants Coil - A stunning true epic of storm and salvage in Mid Atlantic
Pearson, T.R.
Seaworthy - Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting (Pacific mostly - also trip to French Guiana - Devils Island)
Pamperin, Tom
Jagular goes everywhere - mis adventures in a 300 dollar sailboat (Great Lakes - USA, Canada)
Plummer, Henry M.
Boy Me and the Cat - Cruise of the Mascot 1912-1913 (East coast of USA)
Raban, Jonathan
Coasting - A Private Voyage (around Great Britain)
Raban, Jonathan
Old Glory - A Voyage Down the Mississippi
Raban, Jonathan
Passage to Juneau - a sea and its meanings (Washington - Canada - Alaska)
Ruby, Robert
Saunders, Mike
Seale, Avrel
Sinnett-Jones, David
Sinnett-Jones, David
Slocum, Joshua
Slocum, Joshua
Slocum, Joshua
Slocum, Joshua
Slocum, Victor
Teller, Walter Magnes
Stone, Nathaniel
Tangvald, Peter
Tangvald, Peter
Testa, Serge
Theroux, Paul
Thomas, Lowell
Purves, Libby (editor) - H.W. Tilman
Tomalin, Nicholas and Hall, Ron
Wardale, Roger
Watson, Don B.
Wiele, Annie van de
Willis, William - 1893- 1968
Worsley, Frank Arthur (South Atlantic - near Antarctica - in 1916)
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Applebome, Peter
Baden-Powell, Olave St. Clair (Soames)
Blandford, Pearcy W.
Freedman, Russell
Hillcourt, William - with Olave, Lady Baden-Powell
Jeal, Tim
Perry, Rick (Governor of Texas)
Sica, Mario
Wade, Eileen K.
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Dobie, J. Frank
Dobie, J. Frank
Dobie, J. Frank
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update 18 September 2017 - 18 March 2018 - 19 April 2018 - 21 April 2018 - 27 July 2018 -
Author list with LINKS to description of each book
Title list with LINKS to description of each book
Reads - in the order the books were read most recent at the top - large continuous list of books including bibliographic description and comments
To Reads annotated list very loosley by subject.
To Book Index page
Unknown Shore - the Lost History of Englands Arctic Colony
The Walkabouts - a family at sea (South Africa to England)
The Hull the Sail and the Rudder - my search for the boundries of the body mind and soul (South Texas)
Not All Plain Sailing (North Atlantic)
Passion for Life - Adventure against the odds (North Atlantic)
Voyage of the Liberdade (Brazill to Washington, DC, USA)
Sailing Alone Around the World
Sailing Alone Around the World
Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil (delivering a warship)
Capt. Joshua Slocum - the adventures of Americas best known sailor
The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
(Voyage of the Liberdade ~
Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil ~
Sailing Alone Around the World ~
Rescue of Some Gilbert Islanders)
On the Water - Discovering America in a Rowboat 2003
At any Cost - Love - Life and Death at Sea (published in 1991)
Sea Gypsy (published in 1966)
500 Days (a circumnavigation in a very small boat)
Kingdom by the sea - A Journey around the Coast of Great Britain
Count Lukner - the Sea Devil (WWI adventures - Atlantic and Pacific)
Adventures under sail - selected writings of H.W. Tilman (cold waters S. Atlantic and N. Atlantic)
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (disaster during the first non-stop single handed race around the world)
Arthur Ransome under sail - Racundra - Nancy Blackett - Lottie Blossom - Peter Duck - Selina King - Swallow
21500 miles alone in a canoe (down the Mississippi River and more)
The West in my eyes; a domestic circumnavigation.
Whom the Sea Has Taken - 204 Days Alone on a Raft from Peru to Australia
Shackletons Boat Journey
Scouts honor - a fathers unlikely foray into the woods
Window on my Heart - The autobiography of Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, G.B.E. as told to Mary Drewery
A Life Full of Hobbies by Blandford, Pearcy W.
Scouting with Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell - the two lives of a hero
Baden-Powell - Founder of the Boy Scouts (probably the definitive biography)
On My Honor - Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts are worth fighting for
Where it all began Brownsea August 1907 - The First Experimental Scout Camp
The Chief - The Life Story of Robert Baden-Powell (author was his secretary)
Mustangs
Longhorns
Rattlesnakes